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the tribune stouffville ont thursday nov 16th 1939 page seven claremont by staff correspondent social and personal mrs lyman pilkey we under stand is confined to her bed mrs carr has been visiting with her sister mrs l pilkey for the past week mr and mrs melvin johnston and mr and mrs roy morgan i of port perry marked her 96th birthday at her home there last week x the baptist mission circle will be held in the church on tuesday nov 28th at 8 pm this meeting will be open to all men and women of the congre- tc iovr rinnjnirtnn i station and mrs batty presi dent saturday in cannmgton ffi women foreign mission board will speak delegates visit cooking school at the ormrode home mr and mrs w a lehman were at the l b middleton home in unionville on sunday mr ralph wellman well- known farmer east of her under the doctors care miss alma pugh has gone to athens to be with her sister mrs willison mr willison is in an ottawa hospital in a serious condition few reports have come in so far from our hunters but we understand earl beare return ed to town this week with his full quota a cooking school was held here on wednesday sponsored by the wms of the united church the school was con ducted by miss myrtle miller remember the operetta a rose dream to be presented on nov 29th by the pupils of the public school and grade ix lucky numbers in the week- lv boose grocery draw are 5673 5694 5827 5703 5676 5820 several from our town atten ded the shower given recently in brooklin for mrs wilson nee miss lee the new house being erected by mr burnell near the station property is well on the way and should see the owner inside yet before the snow flys mr and mrs floyd jones al so the formers mother mrs john a jones and mrs david ross all of brooklin visited with mrs j bushby recently mr james drake of the rcaf stationed in toronto visited with mr and mrs fred ward recently james is a brother of mr drake a former school principal in claremont charles everett of mount bridges called on friends in town last week charles was formerly employed in this dis trict and was on his way to sign up for the air force miss alma pugh was the soloist recently at the wedding in brougham of doris johnson and sidney smith of whitevale known by friends in clare mont miss elizabeth christie various other counter attrac tions in the community rev h simmons of whitby was the visiting speaker for the final service on friday evening on thursday evening rev cro- foot of oshawa was in charge and conducted a young peoples night one collection was lilted during the week to defray the minor expenses this is the first in a series of such undertakings to be held in the various bap tist churches in the whitby- lindsay association other churches in the district will be visited in the near future we understand educational convention here britains war might rolls to battle representatives from many parts of the county were in at- on tuesday mrs mclntyre tendance on friday at the on- e is and mrs augustine represent- tado coun educational con ing the claremont women s vention held in the community nerves helped fne of the best v things a woman can take for nerv ousness is dr pierces favorite prescription pre scribed by a phy sician who special ized in womens ail ments mrs james johnson of 17 wil- ifam st call ont my i had ba headaches ftttoclatcd kith feminine weakness and bad no bjiptihe the least utile noise completely un- ntuog nif i could hardly sleep and becsme o weak i could scarcely get about after tak ing dr piercea favorite prescription i felt like n new person that upset condition and the headache and feminine caknca disappeared i was able to sleep and i regained my strength cct dr pierces favorite prescription from your druggist institute journeyed to brook lin as delegates from the local organization at the district institute cooking school being held there the school was on the preparing of meats all who would be interested in attending a local school where the home town delegates would impart the knowledge gained at the brooklin demonstration are asked to hand in their names as soon as possible thieves remanded richard maloney aged 17 and william turner age 25 both of toronto pleaded guilty to the attempted robbery of mrs a ramsy at myrtle sta- toin last october 27 when they appeared in police court at whitby last week before magis trate f s ebbs both were re manded in custody one week for sentence former resident passes stricken while he was en gaged at the farm of mr chas hastings last week thomas e brown wellknown hudson township farmer passed away almost immediately mr brown was born in pickering township 62 years ago the funeral was held from hillview united church with interment in the new liskeard cemetery eugene underhill dead the death of eugene under hill of aurora was received here with general regrets there being many old friends both in stouffville and claremont ac quainted with the deceased he played baseball for stouffville and claremont of late years he has built a large practise in den tistry in his home town mr underhill 42 years of age died in st michaels hospital on sun day and was buried in aurora cemetery on tuesday mrs m forsyth mrs walter ward mrs b cook are all aunts of the deceased and mr frank cooper is an uncle he was a member of the aurora high school board and was past master of the rising son masonic lodge he is sur vived by his widow elma nay- lor and two children carol and eugene evangelistic meetings close the series of inspirational meetings being conducted in the baptist church which com menced last monday closed on friday evening the local past or rev augustine reports a successful campaign despite mm cream for best results ship your cream to us you can make your own de livery at a premium of one cent per pound biitter fat or have our truck call stouffville creamery open tuesday thursday and saturday evenings hall claremont afternoon and evening during the afternoon session the various school fair winners in public speaking re citing and music were reviewed by dr mcdougall one of the chief inspectors of ontario pub lic schools and county winnei were decided claremont failed to finish in the money as final ists the awards going to mara scugog and whitby townships in the evening however eric wallace of claremont was pre sented with a book as one of the highest point collectors miss anne davey of shaw busi ness schools toronto gave a demonstration on the salesman ship of your services when applying for a position musical numbers were supplied by don hedges while miss georgina forsyth played the accompani ment during a community sing song cuban resident buys farm the name of the purchaser of the country estate just south of claremont has been revealed he is robert roy whose former home was baracoa cuba roy is a sugar planter cuba has proven a less attractive place of summer residence than canada the purchaser of the claremont property is also one of canadas foremost appraisers and has served many of canadas citi zens of prominence including governorsgeneral prime minis- sters and industrial magnates in matters of highclass import ed objects of art the recently purchased estate consists of 112acres parts of lots 17 and 18 of the 8th concession of i pickering the vendor was p j wideman of markham the i property lies less than 200 rods from a main highway it has 12 wooded acres and is travers ed by the ravine of green river which has several miniature waterfalls in its course across the holding there are also some attractive ski hills on the property there is a sevenroom house at present on the proper ty aid a commodious modern barn the new owner plans to build a more pretentious sum mer home britih war office photocrown copyright reerved courtesy canadian pacific bren carriers somewhere in france an everyd ay sight in hamlets and villages behind the lines past days in pickering coal cement place your orders now for coal at the summer prices salt on hand for hay and feed poultry feeds of all kinds cement delivered if requested land tile various sizes s w hastings stouffville phone 169 the allied trades of tanning and shoemaking flourished locally in the early days of the history of claremont william beal father of j h beal had a tannery north of claremont on the creek about west of where mr carters residents stands later dugald taylor jr had a tannery in the village on the west side of the brock road in the early seventies there were the following shoemakers in the village dugald taylor who often employed four men john palmer later succeeded by his son john palmer jr shackel palmer and william reith and in 1876 magnus henderson and j s farmer began business one of those who worked with dugald tay lor was his soninlaw james jobbitt after mr taylors death he continued the business and for some time was in part nership with j w gregg and later with w m palmer mr jobbitt died in 1904 and the following year mr palmer opened the business which was carried on in a frame store on the northwest corner in the fifties and sixties john forfar had a planing mill and general woodworking shop on the lot now occupied by robert w ward in the later sixties charles michell by whom the woodwork in the macnab store was done was the proprietor after him it was occupied successively by stephen powell mr lorrimer and dociwell and saunders eventually it was burned down among the wood and iron workers of the sixties and seventies may be mentioned alex skene carpenter the gerows carpenters and pump- makers william dowswel wagonmaker william spencer who is said to have turned out from his shop as many as thir teen finished wagons in a seas on george bundy joiner cabinetmaker and undertaker and j w mcgregor manu facturer of tubs pails rakes etc among claremonts mills must be included a grist mill built long before claremont came into being in the early years of the century joshua wixon had a mill on the ninth concession borne distance east of where the village now stands the next known mill was that erected by john c michell in the forties on lot 18 con 9 on the creek half a mile south of the village which did service for many years in the early fifties john hamilton established a mill on the west side of lot 20 con 8 which was operated by james russell till february 1870 when it was burned down later mr russell managed a flour mill on the north side of the 9th con cession line just west of the village this was burned down i 1884 annual euchre and draw for hope chest and twenty ad ditional prizes will be held on wednesday evening november 22 at 8 pm in orange halh church street markham under auspices of markham chapter no 155 order eastern star admission 25c councillors dog had no tag a little dialogue which took ptce at the meeting of new market council last week indi cates that the councillor in question does not know that it is his duty to procure a clog tag and that it is not incumbent on the municipality to run after him here is the report in the newmarket expresshearald which is rather unusual to say the least there are still 35 dogs in town without tags despite the ceaseless efforts of the license issuer welly curtis mr curtis reported to council monday evening that 212 tags had been sold this year as compared to 256 last year he asked council what action he would take why not run a small adver tisement in the papers and give them a week to act suggested aid mungovan have all the councillors tags for their dogs inquired alder man bowser no i havent said the teacher alderman thats why i suggested a weeks grace i mr mungovan was away both times i called at his home explained mr curtis artfur w lynde lhcm teacher of singing established 1913 stouffville fridays phone 802 pupils prepared for toronto conservatory of music examinations send the tribune to absent friends i dont miss i salada stamp club drama of stamps i wednesdays a m i at o cfrb for ijisiek sale prices never lower buy now for spring nse 1939 chevrolet sedan 3 three furrow plows 1939 pontiac sedan 1 6 h p int engine 1936 1936 plymouth sedan terraplane sedan 1 2m h p int engine 1936 chev two ton stake 1 ilh h p fairbanks truck engine 1932 plymouth sedan 1 2furrow tractor plow 1931 essex coach 3 gang plows 1931 chevrolet coach 1 2 horse disc harrow 1931 hupmobile coupe 2 electric washers 1933 chevrolet ton number of used stoves panel 1 furnace 1935 ford u ton pick up 2 stewart clippers 1930 graham sedan 1 ventelectric grinder 1929 erskine sedan 1 gilson ensilage cutter 1928 oldsmobile sedan 1 hand or engine cutting 1932 rugby 2ton stake box i int 1020 tractor 1 work horse 3 fordson tractors i jersey cow chas claremont ontario a sun life policy gives you this and more it plans security for the time of need j l abell ringwood ontario siwni yfe gf canada